When comparing Kiln vs GitGo, the Slant community recommends Kiln for most people. In the question“What are the best hosted version control services?”Kiln is ranked 4th while GitGo is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Kiln is:

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Pros

Pro

SSH support

Pro

User permissions features

With Kiln, teams can be created and individual users can be given different kinds of access to the repositories, this allows for a much tighter security.

Pro

Beautiful UI

GitGo is designed with simplicity and usability in mind.

The main view works as a dashboard of sorts for all the repository activity sorted by newest to oldest. On the top, several tabs allow users to navigate to the commits view, the tasks view or the file browser view. The navigation panel on the left has a button to display notifications, users or to display the general activity view.

GitGo manages to display all useful links at all times on the view without feeling overwhelming to the user's eyes.

Pro

Built for teams

GitGo is built for teams and startups. It has only the features that teams would use such as issue tracking, unlimited repositories, unlimited users, instant deployments, user permissions etc...

Cons

Con

Non-free

Kiln is not free, but it has the option for two users to try it for free first.

Con

GitGo is not free

There is no free tier for GitGo, it's all payed. Although they may offer to give it for free for students in the future.

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